WALDO KENT FERGUSON, AND ROBERT LOWELL ROGERS, APPELLANTS,
v.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, APPELLEE

10th Cir. | 1964-04-02
Nos. 7020, 7021
329 F.2d 923 United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (1964) Positive Treatment
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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

Appellants were tried jointly but were represented by individual counsel. The trial court’s ruling that prosecution witnesses could be cross-examined by but one counsel constitutes plain error within the compulsion of Rule 52(b) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Each defendant had the right to have non-repetitious cross-examination conducted on his behalf by his individual counsel and could not be required to have questions pertaining to his particular interests channeled through his co-defendant’s counsel.

The opinion of the court heretofore filed, 307 F. 2d 787, is withdrawn and the judgments are severally reversed with directions to grant new trials.


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